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quote Originally posted by BingB: All Democrats are not racists because of what Democrats did 150 years ago.

If only it was just limited to 150 years ago.

But it isn't.













Leftists gotta Leftist
The Best Predictor of Future Leftist Behavior Is … Past Leftist Behavior

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The forum post that precedes this forum post:

quote If only it was just limited to 150 years ago... but it isn't. "Leftists gotta Leftist" The Best Predictor of FUTURE Leftist Behavior Is… PAST Leftist Behavior

The Frank Murphy Hall of Justice in Detroit serves the Third Judicial Circuit of Michigan.



Frank Murphy, remembered as a liberal, had a long career in public service. Running as a Democrat, he was elected Mayor of Detroit in 1930 and won reelection in 1932. Running again as a Democrat, he was elected Governor of Michigan and served in that role from 1936 to 1938. In 1939, he became U.S. Attorney General in President Franklin Roosevelt's administration. In 1940, he was appointed an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Executive Order 9066

quote About 10 weeks after the U.S. entered World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942 signed Executive Order 9066. The order authorized the Secretary of War and the armed forces to remove people of Japanese ancestry from what they designated as military areas and surrounding communities in the United States. These areas were legally off limits to Japanese aliens and Japanese-American citizens. The order set in motion the mass transportation and relocation of more than 120,000 Japanese people to sites the government called detention camps that were set up and occupied in about 14 weeks. Most of the people who were relocated lived on the West Coast and two-thirds were American citizens. In accordance with the order, the military transported them to some 26 sites in seven western states, including remote locations in Washington, Idaho, Utah, and Arizona.

Korematsu v. U.S.

quote Fred Korematsu, 23, was a Japanese-American citizen who did not comply with the order to leave his home and job, despite the fact that his parents had abandoned their home and their flower-nursery business in preparation for reporting to a camp. Korematsu planned to stay behind. He had plastic surgery on his eyes to alter his appearance; changed his name to Clyde Sarah; and claimed that he was of Spanish and Hawaiian descent. On May 30, 1942, about six months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the FBI arrested Korematsu for failure to report to a relocation center. After his arrest, while waiting in jail, he decided to allow the American Civil Liberties Union to represent him and make his case a test case to challenge the constitutionality of the government’s order. Korematsu was tried in federal court in San Francisco, convicted of violating military orders issued under Executive Order 9066, given five years on probation, and sent to an Assembly Center in San Bruno, CA. Korematsu’s attorneys appealed the trial court’s decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals, which agreed with the trial court that he had violated military orders. Korematsu asked the Supreme Court of the United States to hear his case. On December 18, 1944, a divided Supreme Court ruled, in a 6-3 decision, that the detention was a “military necessity” not based on race.

The Supreme Court upheld Executive Order 9066 by a 6-3 vote. Justice Frank Murphy was one of the three justices who argued that Executive Order 9066 was unconstitutional:

quote "I dissent, therefore, from this legalization of racism. Racial discrimination in any form and in any degree has no justifiable part whatever in our democratic way of life. It is unattractive in any setting, but it is utterly revolting among a free people who have embraced the principles set forth in the Constitution of the United States. All residents of this nation are kin in some way by blood or culture to a foreign land. Yet they are primarily and necessarily a part of the new and distinct civilization of the United States. They must, accordingly, be treated at all times as the heirs of the American experiment, and as entitled to all the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution."

The forum post that precedes this forum post boils down to nothing more (or less) than "Democrat Bad." It's barely above the sophistication of an average 6th grader, if it deserves even that much credit. The story of Frank Murphy—remembered as a liberal, and a Democrat—is already enough to reveal the forum post that precedes this one as a banal, shallow-minded canard that no thinking person would ever think of creating. Fittingly, it ends with a childish screed about "Leftists" that's as stupid as everything else about it.

To paraphrase Chris Christie, "Anyone who is unwilling to say that the forum post that precedes this forum post is unfit, is unfit themselves."

"We now return you to your regular programming."

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